I would like CR's removed from the examine feature as well.
So we can die more often? :p
no, actually I want them removed from everywhere. If it means you die more often... *shrugs* if it means you solo less often... that would be good. If you don't know how hard things are anymore before you attack them, then you take less risks, and take out a party. Also, I want the list of buffs removed from the examine features. I don't think people should be able to examine things and know exactly which spells they have cast on them, if they've got low stats, etc. I think removing these things would make it so you would have to rp things out more rather than just using mechanical knowledge as ic knowledge.
but yes, also from PC's. Because it would cut down on players rping levels instead of rping their characters.
no, actually I want them removed from everywhere. If it means you die more often... *shrugs* if it means you solo less often... that would be good.
If you don't know how hard things are anymore before you attack them, then you take less risks, and take out a party.
.... if people really start waiting for a gamemaster to be on before logging in, will it then also hurt the chances of casual hookups and player event attendance even more than they are already damaged. *wobbles hand* Dunno. ....
Sorry Pseud.
No apology necessary. I was just looking for an opportunity to use the word 'obfuscate'. With darkstorme around, I suffer from a bad case of linguistics-envy and try to pepper my speech with as many multi-syllabic words as possible. Even when it is malapropos I am now attempting to be magniloquent.
This information is already available, so all of the "against" statements dont make much sense. All that is really be asked is to make it a bit easier, anyone right now can log off and log back on to check for GMs or look at the player list, I think the request is just to add this same info to the server status page.
A much more useful item of information to show to all players on the server status screen would be location. That would save a heck load of Tells ;-)
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- as Carillon mentioned, some bad apples would doubtless use the page to keep checking if a GM is watching before they go ahead and do something against the server rules. Trickier to do that if you have to log all the way out and back in - and even then, you have no way of knowing whether a GM has logged in WHILE you're perpetrating whatever it is you're doing.
For the very very few that want to use the information for breaking rules it is available to them and they will go the extra yard to get it. So using that as a reason to not show it on the server page is vilifying the whole community on account of the very very few.
For what it's worth, 4 years later, GMs can now easily toggle whether they wish to be shown on the server status or not. If a GM shows on the server status it means they may have the time to help with anything, may be looking for some fun RP or are just hanging about.